Sentences with phrase «of dodo bird»

After the housing crisis, they almost went the way of the dodo bird.

Frankly, with the demise of the large corporate brands, and the onslaught of franchised real estate offices since the early 1980's, this type of brokerage has certainly gone the way of the dodo bird.

CREA needs to get with it, downsize and actually represent the members, or go the way of the DoDo bird.

I'm not sure if the 2 to 3/10 ratio is an accurate one, as with my 25 years in I should have 5 to 7-1/2 loyal clients yet my referral and repeat rate is annually higher than that, however the point you make is the key here that we must be cognizant of the fact loyalty has for the most part gone the way of the DoDo Bird.

If the idea of dividing up «parental responsibilities» takes hold in other states, it won't be long until «custody» will go the way of the Dodo Bird.

Instinctively I tell them that this went the way of the Dodo bird, and want to know who gave them this advice.

But the practice of recording time by hand on paper timesheets really does need to go the way of the Dodo bird.

Will link lists go the way of the dodo bird?

Alas, instead, jury trials are going the way of the dodo bird.

Fax machines are quickly going the way of the dodo bird.

But, along with the conveniences technology brings, some attorney jobs have gone the way of the dodo bird thanks to new developments.

Changes to music publishing meant his «treasured» teenage collection of 45 rpms, along with 8 - tracks and cassettes had «gone the way of the dodo bird,» Brown added.

Those left standing will be the ones with common sense and facts on their side, the Eco-Loons will go the way of the Dodo bird.

Other works included in Soft White bear a liveliness that ranges from the whacky humor of Dodo Bird Lamp, 1991, by Tom Otterness to the excesses of «Victorian» mutation in R.M. Fischer's The Incandescent Ones, 1988.

«Domination - only» vehicles are going the way of the dodo bird.

Booth babes will soon go the way of the dodo bird.

If you ever wanted more evidence as to how Midway went the way of the Dodo bird, here it is.

So, yeah, I think pet shops should go the way of the Dodo bird.

Templeton Constrained Bond Fund (FTCAX) goes the way of the dodo bird on August 27, 2015 which «may be delayed if unforeseen circumstances arise.»

In a world where (unless you work for a government agency — police, nurses, teachers, government employees etc.) the guarantees of a corporately sponsored retirement income stream have virtually gone the way of the dodo bird.

I'm crossing my fingers that existing 0 % APR credit cards and balance transfer cards avoid going the way of the Dodo bird.

The trades you'd automatically get at no cost based on the frequency of trading you'd do or the amount of money you have in your account have gone the way of the Dodo bird.

You might think that with the demise of the penny in Canada this kind of pricing trickery will go the way of the Dodo bird.

# 4 Consistency and Quality Went the Way of the Dodo Bird In 2010, over 90 percent of the hardbacks were returned to the publisher from the brick and mortar stores!

Part of my job is to make sure to I keep my finger on the pulse of what's working well, what's transforming, and what book promotion tactics will soon go the way of the dodo bird.

I hope for Amanda's sake that trolls, unicorns, and paranormal don't go the way of the dodo bird in the next 2 years — hurry, St. Martins!

Unlike some others, I don't think the «paper» industry is going to go the way of the Dodo bird, but I am convinced that the publishing industry will be split down the middle, with a big part of it going to the digital realm.

The publishers now are chiefly responsible for dictating the digital price and the wholesale concept that Amazon pioneered is going the way of the Dodo Bird.

This sparked speculation that either the 370Z would be going the way of the dodo bird or go a completely different route.

But let's break this down, for example, with some practical question to see if you might go the way of the Dodo bird.

Sorry to see your style posts going the way of the dodo bird.

«There used to be moderate Republicans in New York, «Rockefeller Republicans,» they went the way of the dodo bird, they're now all extreme conservatives.»

They went the way of the dodo bird.»

One of the recipes that went the way of the dodo bird was my recent red lentil pizza crust, which I had posted Monday.

If it went the way of the dodo bird we would have lost nothing except one less reason to divide ourselves.

Not exact matches

Every major reformulation of the Impossible Burger gets named after a bird — anhinga, blue - footed booby, condor, dodo.

By Leyla Loued - Khenissi The Island of Mauritius is located east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.It was once the home of the now - extinct dodo bird.

It consisted of 10 - foot - tall steel pieces commemorating birds that are now extinct, like the dodo and the passenger pigeon.

Scientists are also close to reconstructing the genomes of the dodo, the flightless bird that went extinct from Mauritius, its only home, in the late 1600s; and the great auk, which lived in the North Atlantic before dying out in the mid-19th century.

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The fossil discoveries made by barber and amateur naturalist Etienne Thirioux between 1899 and 1910 include some of the best dodo remains existing today, including the only complete skeleton known from a single bird (housed in the Natural History Museum in Port Louis, Mauritius), and another largely complete skeleton (housed in the Durban Natural Science Museum in South Africa).

For eco-artists such as Rupp, there is a haunting beauty in bringing the past back, of recreating the dead and gathering them together — in this picture, a pair of moas, a great auk, and a dodo, birds that never would have met while alive — so that those of us in the world of the living can learn from them.

Today the dodo bird is an icon of extinction and the mammoth a giant of de-extinction prospects, but during the 19th century there were people that believed the dodo bird was a myth and that mammoths would be discovered still alive in the unexplored reaches of America.

But in January 2016, Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, announced at the Plant and Animal Genomes XXIV conference that the whole genome of the extinct Dodo bird had been sequenced.

The last Dodo bird died on the island of Mauritius (located about 1,200 miles off the southeast coast of Africa, in the Indian Ocean) over 300 years ago.

If scientists could find a lot more dodo DNA, they might be able to identify the genetic variations that turned the ancestors of dodos — small, flying pigeons — into big flightless birds.

But the diversity of those tiny bits of DNA was growing, including DNA from the Tasmanian tiger, dodo bird, the New Zealand Moa, the mammoth, woolly rhino, saber - toothed cats, Egyptian mummies, and even Neanderthals.

The Warwick Manufacturing Group at the University of Warwick has uncovered a mystery surrounding the Oxford Dodo bird.

But after taking over the HMS Beagle and capturing a dopey, lovesick and conniving Charles Darwin (voice of David Tennant, «How to Train Your Dragon,» the remake of «Fright Night»), Captain is informed that his bird, Polly, which he had always thought was a parrot, is actually a thought - to - be-extinct Dodo.

Building a rocket, fighting a mummy, climbing up the Eiffel Tower, discovering something that doesn't exist, giving a monkey a shower, surfing tidal waves, creating nanobots, locating Frankenstein's brain, finding a dodo bird, painting a continent and driving your sister insane are not fungible even if they're all good ways of spending your summer vacation.